Here’s the first trailer for David O. Russell’s The Fighter (HD version at Apple).  It’s quite a departure from David O. Russell’s usual twee-ish comedies I Heart Huckabees and Flirting with Disaster (and to a lesser extent Three Kings).  It stars workout video king Mark Wahlberg as boxer Micky Ward and Christian Bale as Ward’s ne’er-do-well half brother, Dicky Ecklund. christian-bale-the-fighter-KEanu Ward was originally slated to be played by Matt Damon, and Ecklund by Brad Pitt, but as this belly shirt I’m wearing says, sh*t happens. Moving on, 1:28.  That’s how far into the trailer I was before I realized the skinny weirdo with the greasy hair and bald spot was Christian Bale.  How the hell does he do that?

Anyway, Mahky Mahk is a bawxah, but really he’s just a hahd workah.  A blue collah guy who’s gawt one last shawt at the big time.  Christian Bale plays his knucklehead brothah — “I’m ya trainah, Micky, can’t ya see that, ya fackin’ hahd on?”  And he’s all like, “Micky, you ah sittin’ on a winnin’ lawttery ticket heah, an’ youah too much of a pussy ta cash it in! I’d do anything to have what you’s gawt, you queah!  Now go out theah and bawx like ya queah haht depends on it, like Welkah lined up in the slawt. “  And then Marky Mark meets Amy Adams and he’s all like, “Hey, ya like apples?  How ya like these apples?  My fathah picked ‘em in prison.  He don’t get out much.  I’m about ta leave this whole town in my reahview.  I betcha been readin’ a lawt a that Gahdon S. Wood, that queah.”  And she’s all like, “Aw, Micky, you ah so retahded.”    “You ah.”  “GO SAWX.”  (*they kiss*)  Fin.

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